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title: 10 Career Tips From Silicon Valley Terps
date: 2025-04-02T05:30:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
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# 10 Career Tips From Silicon Valley Terps

*April 2, 2025* — by [Karen Shih ’09](/author/karen-shih)


> QUEST Students Bring Back Advice, Connections From Alums at Top Tech Companies Over Spring Break

*Siliconvaller 1920x1080 — From emphasizing the importance of collaboration to challenging students to try new ideas, UMD alums working in Silicon Valley offer career advice for Terps.*

Jack Campbell ’27 thought his team’s pitch at Meta headquarters for a new product might win each of them a branded water bottle.

But after they proposed an app to get people outdoors to build a virtual piece of art collaboratively at local parks and won first place against fellow UMD classmates, their hosts brought out some of the company’s $300 Quest 3S headsets and $329 Ray-Ban AI glasses.


*Group of students posing with Instagram logo — QUEST students with the Instagram logo at the Meta campus*


*Students look at Nuro's white delivery vehicle with butterfly wings open, showing snack products inside — Nuro Software Engineer Paul Lathrop ’19 (right) shows QUEST students an autonomous delivery vehicle*



[Tips from Silicon Valley Terps](https://view.genial.ly/67eab1720ed7fff78b6ed460)

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